2020 June | Hodgins Art Auctions

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signed lower right; titled on the stretcher verso

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signed lower right; titled verso

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Lister Sinclair & Jack Pollock; Editions France-Amerique; Montreal; 1979; 201 pp.; ed. #150/300
Oblong quarto, brown lettered cream cloth boards with blind-stamp to front; illustrated endpapers; over 130 colour reproductions throughout the text; signed by Morrisseau on the title page

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Canadian ASA, CSPWC, RCA [1912-1998]
JANET MITCHELL: LIFE AND ART
Collector’s Edition; ed. #106/130
Artwork by Janet Mitchell; Written by Peggy Armstrong; Preface by Joan Murray
Hyperion, Winnipeg; 1990; 144pp.
Issued with no dust jacket. Bound in blue leather with facsimile signature of the artist in silver on the front cover. Signed by the artist. This copy includes the two signed linocut prints, as originally issued:

BLUE BOY / BROWN COW
linocut on paper; ed. #106/145 (2)
each 8 x 5 in. (20.3 x 12.7 cm); sheet size 10 x 7 in. (25.4 x 17.8 cm)
each signed, titled & editioned

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MARION NICOLL R.C.A.
By: J. Brooks Joyner
First Limited Collector’s Edition; 157pp. signed by Marion Nicoll and editioned IV
Publisher: Western Emerging Arts Ltd./Masters Gallery, Calgary; 1979
Printed on Carlyle Japan Antique finish and containing numerous colour and black & white photographs; blue leatherette with gilt to spine and front cover in matching slipcase. Includes the original clay print (framed) specially executed for this volume by Marion Nicoll, along with the separate blue leatherette folder:

Marion Florence Nicoll
Canadian ASA, RCA [1909-1985]
SELF PORTRAIT; 1979
colour clay print on paper; ed. #61/200
10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
signed, titled, dated & editioned

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Robert Watson and Walter J. Phillips; Stovel Company Limited; Winnipeg; 1931; pp. 63; ed. #936/968.
First printing; slim 8 vo; tan paper boards in original black slipcase; signed by the author and artist; illustrated with 20 woodcuts by Phillips

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Alexander Young Jackson, Forward by The Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey; Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd.; Toronto; 1958; 170 pp.; limited signed edition; ed. #319/1000
Bound in gilt lettered 1/4 red leather and red boards, illustrated with tipped in colour plates; signed by the artist

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signed lower right; titled on the artist’s label verso

Provenance: The Collector’s Gallery, Calgary AB

Note: This is an early work by the Gissing, likely dating from the late 1930s or early 1940s.

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signed lower right; titled on the stretcher verso and on the gallery label
Provenance: Estate of Raymond Rougeau, Brooks AB; Gainsborough Galleries, Calgary AB

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signed lower right
Provenance: This piece was purchased directly from A. C. Leighton in the 1940s